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Where The Head Spun: November 13th 2009

arafiqui wrote 1 week ago: A wide range of issues came across recently and though I would love to wax lyrical about all of them … more →

Tags: Israel/Palestine, Musings On Confusions, Our Wars, Anti-Semitism, Clash of Civilizations?, Colonialism, Islam, Islamofacism, Israel

Arundhati Roy On The Meaning And Idea Of Resistance

arafiqui wrote 2 weeks ago: It has become fashionable to simply accept, to acquiese to power, to be obsequieous, to kiss-ass, to … more →

Tags: Our Wars, Writers, War crimes, Crimes Against Humanity, India, democracy, Arundhati Roy

Talking To Each Other And Alongside Each Other: Anna Baltzer & Mustafa Barghouti On The Daily Show

arafiqui wrote 3 weeks ago: Mustafa Barghouti is (Mustafa Kamil Mustafa Barghuthi) is a physician and a political activist; advo … more →

The State As The Incarnation Of Collective Interests, Purposes And Goods: Tony Judt on Social Democracy, Its Meaning, Intent and Consequences

arafiqui wrote 4 weeks ago: Tony Judt directs the Remarque Institute at NYU and is the author of Postwar: A History of Europe Si … more →

Tags: Writers, democracy, History, social democracy, Society

Offering Silence To The Oppressed Or How Photography Can Become A Weapon Of Repression1 comment

arafiqui wrote 1 month ago: An exhibition called ‘Beware The Cost Of War’ recently opened in London. Reading about i … more →

Tags: Israel/Palestine, Journalism, Musings On Confusions, Our Wars, Colonialism, Crimes Against Humanity, Crisis of Photojournalism, Edward Said, Gaza

Pakistan In A Nutshell Or Examples in Failures Of The Imagination

arafiqui wrote 1 month ago: Pakistan Receives First of 18 Lockheed F-18C Fighter/Bombers for which it paid nearly $2,000,000,000 … more →

Tags: Musings On Confusions, Pakistan

Paris Photo 2009:Be There For If You Are Not There...Er...You Are Not There!

arafiqui wrote 1 month ago: Rio, Sans titre, 2008 © Mohamed Bourouissa, Courtesy Galerie Les filles du calvaire Paris/Bruxelles … more →

Tags: Photography, On Photography

America's First Black President Wasn't Barack Hussein Obama

arafiqui wrote 1 month ago: … more →

Where The Head Spun: Tuesday, October 13th 2009

arafiqui wrote 1 month ago: Ali Eteraz has been featured on this blog site before. His insightful piece Pakistan Is Already An I … more →

Photo Projects I Like: Jörg Brüggemann's "Same Same But Different"1 comment

arafiqui wrote 1 month ago: Backpackers are mildly delusional. I mean that in the most serious way. They travel to some of the m … more →

Tags: Musings On Confusions, On Photography, Photo Technique

The Hindus Live In Small And Dark Homes Or Educating Our Child Soldiers

arafiqui wrote 1 month ago: The minds of children are usually shut inside prison houses, so that they become incapable of unders … more →

Tags: Musings On Confusions, Our Wars, Clash of Civilizations?, Crimes Against Humanity, History, India, Islam, Islamofacism, muslims

The New India? Or How It Became Just Like Everyone Else!

arafiqui wrote 1 month ago: I came across this piece in the recent issue of Granta and it made for depressing reading. Capital G … more →

Tags: Background Materials, Journalism, Musings On Confusions, India, Pakistan, The West

Proven: The Apollo 11 Moon Walk Was A Hoax!

arafiqui wrote 4 months ago: If there was ever any doubt, this video erases them! To be uploaded soon; video of my lunch date wit … more →

Wrapping Photographers Into The Packaging of War3 comments

arafiqui wrote 4 months ago: They took the New York Times on a war tour. The Battle For Pakistan it was called when the magazine … more →

Tags: Journalism, Our Wars, Photography, Crisis of Photojournalism, democracy, Pakistan, Photo Technique, War Against Terror

You Must Remember This, A Kiss Is Still A Kiss, A Lie Is Still A Lie

arafiqui wrote 4 months ago: … more →

Tags: Journalism, Our Wars, Cheney, Crimes Against Humanity, George W. Bush, Imperialism, Occupation, Oil, Terrorism

Losing My Religion To Tomorrow's Headlines

arafiqui wrote 4 months ago: Via Sepia Mutiny: This is RizMC … more →

Tags: Musings On Confusions, Our Wars, Clash of Civilizations?, democracy, Imperialism, Islam, Islamofacism, middle east, muslims

Realities, Myths, Fantasies & Paranoias: The Muslims - Get To Know Them Series

arafiqui wrote 4 months ago: Professor Yoginder Sikand recently posted an extensive review of Abdelwahab El-Affendi’s Who N … more →

Tags: Musings On Confusions, Clash of Civilizations?, History, India, Islam, middle east, muslims, Pakistan

Where The Head Spun: Sunday, 12th July 2009

arafiqui wrote 4 months ago: This week has been busy with some writings on The Idea of India photo project, but I did manage to c … more →

Tags: Israel/Palestine, Anti-Semitism, Clash of Civilizations?, Colonialism, Crimes Against Humanity, democracy, Gaza, Israel, middle east

If You Are In Chicago...

arafiqui wrote 4 months ago: …then this may be worth stopping by for a listen: … more →

Tags: Poetry, Writers, democracy, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistan


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